Lunz Sandstone from the area east of Uhrovec Village, Strážovské vrchy Mts, Slovakia. Hronic Považie nappe. Sandstone appears in the middle of the dolomite complex.[1] Hammer 38 cm long.
Type
Formation
Underlies
Main Dolomite
Overlies
Wetterstein Formation
Lithology
Primary
sandstone, shale
Other
coal
Location
Country
Austria; Slovakia
Type section
Named for
Lunz am See
Named by
M.V. Lipold
The Lunz Formation is a geologic formation in Austria and other Tethyan regions. It is composed of quartz sandstone, shales and claystones, locally with coal interbeds. The basal part of the formation may contain marine fossils. It preserves fossils dated to the Carnian stage of the Triassic period and represents significant siliciclastic input into the European carbonate shelf due to the Carnian Pluvial Event.[2][3]
Formation is traditionally divided into 3 members (Lunz Sandstone, Coal-bearing shales and Upper Sandstone),[4] this concept was later modified and Trachyceras Beds and Reingraben shales were included into the basal part of the formation:[5]
Trahyceras Beds (Trachycerasschichten, Aonschichten) represented by dark, often bituminous limestone and calcareous shale alteration containing abundant Trachyceratitic ammonites
Reingraben shales (Reingrabener Schiefer) often described as grey to black shales with Halobia bivalves
Main sandstone (Lunzer Hauptsandstein) - grey, brown to green sandstones (feldspar greywacke or arkose) in the basal part, representing thickest part of the formation
Coal-bearing clayey shales in the middle part
Upper sandstone (Lunzer Hangendsandstein) - considerably thinner quartz sandstones in the upper part of the formation
The Lunz Formation overlies the Ladinian-Carnian Wetterstein Formation and is covered by the Norian Main Dolomite.
Formation was originally defined by M.V. Lipold as Lunzer Schichten, according to Austrian town Lunz am See. It occurs in the Northern Calcareous Alps, Western Carpathians.[6][3] The Lunz Formation of the Northern Calcareous Alps is well known for well preserved Carnian flora - the so-called Lunz Flora.[7][8]
^Pelech, O., Olšavský, M., Laurinc, D., Kotulová, J., Šimo, V. & Mikudíková, M., 2020: Lunzské vrstvy hronika východnej časti Strážovských vrchov. Geologické práce, Správy, 136, 39 – 58.
^Aubrecht, R., Sýkora, M., Uher, P., Li, X.-H., Yang, Y.-H., Putiš, M., Plašienka, D., 2017: Provenance of the Lunz Formation (Carnian) in the Western Carpathians, Slovakia: Heavy mineral study and in situ LA–ICP–MS U–Pb detrital zircon dating. Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 471, 233–253.
^ abKohút, M., Hofmann, M., Gavrila, M., Linnemann, U., Havrila, J., 2017: Tracking an upper limit of the “Carnian Crisis” and/or Carnian stage in the Western Carpathians (Slovakia). Int. J. Earth Sci. (Geol Rundsch), DOI: 10.1007/s00531-017-1491-8
^Tollmann, A., 1976: Analyse des klassischen nordalpinen Mesozoikums, Wien, Franz Deuticke, 580 pp.
^Tollmann, A., 1985: Geologie von Österreich. Band II, Auβer-zentralalpiner Anteil. Wien, Franz Deuticke, 711 pp.
^Havrila, M., Boorová, D., Havrila, J., 2019: Paleogeographic scheme of the Reingraben and Lunz event sediments deposition area (Central Western Carpathians): research, notes, foraminifers. (In Slovak, English summary) Geologické práce, Správy 134, 3 – 32.
^Stur, D., 1885: Die obertriadische Flora der Lunzer-Schichten und des bituminösen Schiefers von Raibl. – Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse – 91: 93 - 103.
^Dobruskina, I. A., 1998, Lunz flora in the Austrian Alps — a standard for Carnian floras. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 143, 4, 307-345
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